Thanks man...everytime I take pictures of a car, I get the car to take up most of the picture. However, with HDR photos, bringing out vivid colors in background items such as containers, trees, clouds, etc...calls for a bigger background! Now I need to find a good backdrop so I can start shooting.

Thanks man...everytime I take pictures of a car, I get the car to take up most of the picture. However, with HDR photos, bringing out vivid colors in background items such as containers, trees, clouds, etc...calls for a bigger background! Now I need to find a good backdrop so I can start shooting.

HDR does really well pulling out colors in the sky. Try to shoot early afternoon, morning or with a storm rolling in.

again, like i just said in a different thread. You want the luminosity all the way up to eliminate the "halo" effect you see under the car. Also, you are probably trying a little too hard for that cartoonish effect... try medium smoothing instead (this is in reference to Jnic's rendition). Also, like I've said 1000 times, try using just 1 raw image especially when starting out with this program. more times than not you won't get the best result because you aren't bracketing properly. its not about being exactly at -2, 0, +2 for the shots... besides unless you are using a real light meter you aren't actually getting the perfect "0" exposure because you are measuring the light with the camera seen in the frame which can be wrong and distorted because of a black or white object in the photo.

Shoot raw, use 1 exposure to start off and work on getting 1 properly exposed picture rather than 3 or 5, let photomatix decide how it wants to bracket and your pics will look a lot better.

My attempts if someone can help. I did everything exactly as your supposed to. I got the stupid watermarks out of one so far but the other ones didn't merge correctly or did something strange to high reflected areas. I did -2,0,+2. Also nice Lambo

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My attempts if someone can help. I did everything exactly as your supposed to. I got the stupid watermarks out of one so far but the other ones didn't merge correctly or did something strange to high reflected areas. I did -2,0,+2. Also nice Lambo